Head - Research/Monitoring & Evaluation - Livelihoods Sector

Role description

The ideal candidate will be agile, curious and passionate people for our thought leadership (research, innovation & intervention design) function - who are empathetic to the problem statement & to stakeholders, and can work comfortably across domains.The candidate must be articulate, have strong analytical skills, be results-oriented, be energized by learning and creating.

Roles and responsibilities:

The essential duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

- Conducting/commissioning secondary & primary research

- Designing interventions for pilots

- Sourcing innovation

- Identifying need gaps and novel solutions for those working with partners to co-create

- Writing papers and reports to establish thought leadership,

- Creating tools and frameworks

- Maintaining data assets and knowledge base.

- Measuring outcomes.

Qualifications I

- A proven track record of 3+ years

- Candidate must have experience in the development sector.

- Comfortable working in a dynamic, high-pressure environment; aligning with evolving business objectives and schedules.

- Should be capable of working independently with minimum supervision.

- Ability to juggle multiple products, projects and priorities.

Skills & Competencies Required :

- Ability to meet deadlines and work on a range of tasks in a diverse team.

- Ability to read/write/communicate very fluently in English.

- Strong interpersonal and people management skills.

- Ability to support teams and partners especially to troubleshoot or offer guidance, as appropriate.

- He/she should understand the governance structure in India.

- Should be flexible, not rigid. He/she should be able to think out of the box.

- Someone who has exposure to international experience.

- Should be independent as well as a team player.